Seattle Code Camp is Coming

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

My talk, “Fast… Faster… FASTER!” got accepted at Seattle Code Camp. I’ll be speaking at 10:15 on Saturday 17th. In a rare display of organization I’ve even started writing the deck with a little help from Banksy on the graphics. I’ll also be putting some more of the source code ...

Parallel Programming Talks at Seattle Code Camp

Friday, February 26th, 2010

There are lots of interesting talks at Seattle Code Camp this year (April 17th and 18th). One of the biggest things I noticed was the number of talks on parallel computing, including one on patterns for parallel programming. I thought I’d submit something a bit different… Fast… Faster… FASTER! What happens when you ...

patterns & practices Summit 2009

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Dates and an session schedule for this year’s patterns & practices Summit have been announced. The next patterns & practices Summit takes place October 12-16 in the Kodiak Room at the Microsoft Conference Center at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers including Martin ...

Agile is NOT a Religion

Friday, June 19th, 2009

I was having dinner with some people at a conference and one of them turned to me and said “If you weren’t doing agile what would you be doing?” I remember looking very blank and giving a somewhat vague answer. In retrospect this was because the question ...

Beyond Agile

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Some of the usual suspects who have been running the Seattle XP and Seattle Scrum groups have decided to pool their efforts and form a new group – Beyond Agile. The vision is "Beyond Agile: People making software that works". Now that’s something I can get behind. Their first meeting is ...